Improvement in window-blinds



UNITED STATES PATENT CJFFICEo v- ILINDoN FAEK, oF EEADY, PENNSYLVANIA.

- IMPROVEMENT IN WINDOW-BLINDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,858, dated March l?, 1873.

whichl Figure 1 represents a View of the blind (when extended) on the inside. Fig. 2 represents the opposite or outside of the same. Fig. 3 represents an end View of the blind with the slats open. Fig. 4 shows a slat with three staples attached-one staple at the edge and center of the slat, and the other two at the opposite edge of the slat, near the endsand the drawing-string to raise the blind passing through the notches onrthe edge of' the slat. Fig. `5 shows the block that isattached near each' end on the outside of the top slat, to which the inside tapes are fastened by clips, the block having an aperture through which the drawing-string passes and operates.

The nature of my invention consists in the suspension of the slats von a single pair of tape-lines on the inside of the blind, with wire staples passingthrough the tapes and across the upperedges of the slat-s,ithe points then turned squarely downward, and clinched through the slats a little below their edges in. such a man ner that the slats hang perpendicular, but are free to turn upward, the staples' acting as hinges; also, the drawing-string running on the sides of the slats, through the staples, and under the tapes, the slats having notches on their upper edges, between the staples, to give it a free passage, the string attached to the lower sla-t, and passing through blocks on the back of vthe upper slat,"then turning to the center of the blind andthrough a ring in the top of the window; also, a small colored tape on the center of the outside of the blind passing through staples on the lower edges of the slats in such a manner as to turn them horizontallyr also, the block, as constructed with the tapes and clips, when said slats, tapes,

' staples, blocks, and clips are combined and voperated as hereafter described; the object v being to produce a neat and convenient blind, less liable to get out of order, to dispense with outside tapes, which fade and rot by exposure to sunlight, (excepting the small central line,

easily renewed,) to dispense with inortises in the slats, easier cleaned than the old Venetian blinds, and to admit of repaintin g without taking apart and reconstructing.

A represents the slats, to be made of wood# or thick paper-board. BB B are staples, that act as hinges, passing through the tapes (l 0,'

(on the inside'of the blind,) the staples being made ot' wire and clinched through 'the slats;V D is the drawing-string that is permanently attached to the lower slat, near the ends ofthe slat; E E, the blocks through which the drawing-st ring passes, and to which the. tapes G (l `are fastened by clips GG to the back side of ing-strip g is put throughthe front ring M, and

the small tape J through both rings M M, and hangs down on the inside with a tassel. The drawing-string D folds the vblind and` the tapes; line J opens the slats A, and both string and tape may be attached and iixed in any desirable position to the button N on the lower slat, or to the window-jacob at the side.

What I claim as iny invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isy Ihe arrangement of the slats A suspendedl at top by hooks K K, and by'a single pair of tape-lines, C C, on the inside of the blind, with the wire staple-iastenings B B, the drawing! string D ruiming in notches -on the sides of the slats A, through the staples B B, andthrough the blocks E E, and a srnall tape, J on the outside of the blind passing through the center staples B, when combined and operating as herein described, and for the purposes set forth.

LINDON PARK. Witnesses:

J. M. WORK,

E. H. GRIFFITH. 

